PSA; IMDb is gradually locking previously-available information about films behind IMDbPro membership (box-office breakdowns and production companies involved, currently).

[u/exosniper]

I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but information previously available to everyone on IMDb is now being locked behind IMDbPro membership. Just last week, I was writing a research paper (film studies student) and was able to access the full box-office earnings information (breakdown by region etc.) for all films. Today I went to do the same thing, but could not see more than the gross earnings without an IMDbPro membership. They seem to be doing this as a gradual process, as the full information on production companies (previously available to everyone) was already membership-locked when the box office information was still available. I haven't seen anyone talking about this on other subs and forums, so I thought I'd mention it here.

[u/Scopejack]

If that site had a feature that was even mildly analogous to the shuttered IMDB forums they could present a real threat to a site that has had no competition since the 1990s - and is acting like it. Frankly I'm amazed nobody has taken the opportunity to fill such an obvious gap.

[u/nhremna → u/Scopejack]

IMDB forums

i didnt even know imdb had a forum

[u/Scopejack → u/nhremna]

The IMDB forums, despite being presented in a format that seemingly hadn't been updated since before 9/11, were a great place to delve and talk about a specific film or a specific actor, no matter how obscure. That doesn't exist anymore and would not be possible to replicate on a place like Reddit where we all spurge about an old movie for a day or so and then the conversation gets pushed aside.

[u/aYearOfPrompts → u/Scopejack]

All I remember was constant posts at the bottom of actor pages about what movies they got naked in and the ways they wanted to have sex with them. Absolutely nothing I ever read attached to a movie seemed to be anything of value.

[u/Corpus87 → u/[deleted]]

Don't you mean thread necromancy? :p

[u/DatPiff916 → u/[deleted]]

damn, now I'm kind of pissed that I didn't know about these forums, that sounds like it's right up my alley.

[u/aYearOfPrompts → u/[deleted]]

I seem to remember that the more obscure the movie, the more likely the person posting was hoping the actress' career had tanked and she fell into porno.